And, it’s finally here. Thumbs up/down or recommendation ratings are now part of GD Star Rating. Thumbs can be used for both posts and comments, can use different sets much like the rating stars. This version also features few fixes and changes.
I fixed few reported bug, and made few changes to CSS optimizations, few improvements to caching and prefetch and also expanded cache for better support for thumbs up/down ratings. But, all that aside, the most important new feature is thumbs up/down rating, and example can be seen on this website in the corner of each post. I made few changes to some of the panels, and split settings panel to settings and graphics. Graphics panel now shows previews and is used to set stars and thumbs to be included in the main CSS file.
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Work on thumbs is far from completed, but even at this point, a lot of things are functional. Thumbs rating can be added to posts and comments. It supports different image sets and sizes, much like the star ratings do. The same way as for the stars, you can select thumb sets and sizes to include in CSS for active rating blocks. Each thumb image has two states, one for normal, and one for hover. Rendering is as usual done using T2 templates, and I included several additional templates. Right now there is only one thumbs set included in both PNG and GIF version. Unlike with the stars sets, thumbs sizes are a little different and two biggest sizes. Thumbs support 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, 32px and 40px. I added function for theme integration of thumbs ratings, and also a shortcode for adding thumbs block into the post.
Some of the settings will be used from standard ratings, and that includes voting rules and restrictions. It will be confusing to have two sets of the different settings for each post or comment. Same goes for checking for duplicated votes and few other things. All thumbs specific options are on the thumbs up/down tab on the settings panel. Thumbs rating results are also displayed on the articles panel and in the log.
As for the number of SQL queries plugin adds for this new type of ratings depends on the settings, but it should be more than 6 in case where you have both comments and post thumbs on the same page, regardless how many comments or posts are there.
Still to do in the following versions: to add vote waiting indicator, comments integration, adding results to widgets and more functions. All that will be added in the next couple of version leading to 1.6.0 version.
As with any new feature, there will bugs in the thumbs up/down implementation. So, try it, and report if you found any problem. I have added a lot of debug calls, so if you find the problem, enable in-file debug and send me debug file afterward.
So, another new rating type is part of GD Star Rating, and this now makes this plugin ultimate rating system for WordPress that will allow you to set any kind of ratings you need. And as always, stay tuned for more.
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July 13, 2009
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Hi, I just upgraded the plugin, and it now shows both the thumbs rating, and the regular rating in both the post, and comments. How do I make it so it only displays the thumb rating for both the post and comments?
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July 13, 2009
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There are auto insert settings for all types of ratings. You can control where to insert what type of rating. Thumbs have own tab on Settings panel.
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July 13, 2009
at 10:44 AM
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hey milan if you want you can send me psds of your thumb and i can try giving you sets with different colors. Basically, my drawing is bad so drawing thumb is not possible but i am good in taking others work and putting colors to it
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You can send it to the id i use to post comments…
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July 13, 2009
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Sorry, thumbs are created using Axialis Icon Workshop, and I am not allowed to redistribute the source files because of license agreement.
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July 13, 2009
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The bugs:
-If i select both Top and bottom for comments: division by zero in operation.php
-http://www.khojiye.com/reviews/2009/06/10/bansal-classes-kota/
I have the thumbs in comments but they aren’t working, in the sense you click them but their is no voting count change…!!!
- Whatever written in title text box was not visible…
- Just Like That: Strange but ‘!’ mark should be shift+1 but in title text box it was shift+”. May be some language setting from you. I use. UK/ US
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July 13, 2009
at 12:31 PM
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Thanx for this. New version will be released in a day or two.
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July 13, 2009
at 12:09 PM
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Ohhh.. my bad wrt “I have the thumbs in comments but they aren’t working, in the sense you click them but their is no voting count change…!!!”
1. It seems i need to use expanded template (but i thought without that too it should show some value of thumb rating..!!!)
2. Also for thumbs there is no IP restriction/ browser restriction.. If i click n times it increase the total value n times??
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July 13, 2009
at 2:33 PM
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Yes, the thumbs in comments are not tracking any voting (positive or negative.) only bug I have noticed so far.
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July 13, 2009
at 2:36 PM
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I noticed few problems on my live blog, but on development servers everything works fine. I will need to investigate more on the comment thumbs. Can you activate debug into file, try to add some thumbs votes in comments, and send me debug file after to see why nothing is saved?
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July 13, 2009
at 2:49 PM
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here you go, let me know when you’re done.
http://www.thetvstop.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/debug.txt
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July 13, 2009
at 3:00 PM
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Thanx. I saved the file for analysis.
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July 13, 2009
at 12:34 PM
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This latest update seems to have broken my multi set post reviews. I set the review stars normally in the post but they don’t seem to be saving. Once I update/publish post and go back into edit mode the review stars are blank again.
I’ve turned off all the thumbs auto insertion code.
Any suggestions? Thanks
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July 13, 2009
at 12:47 PM
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This is not changed in this version. But I will investigate what the problem can be.
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July 13, 2009
at 12:59 PM
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I have just tested that, and everything works fine with or without thumbs (they have nothing to do with multi reviews).
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July 13, 2009
at 3:04 PM
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hmm might be my installation, i upgraded to 2.8.1 recently which gave me some other issues. I’ll wipe and re-install and see if the problem persists.
Thanks
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July 13, 2009
at 5:00 PM
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Big Bug(??):
From the sidebar 2 plugins (cformII & mailpress) and even the search function (of starscape) have stopped working.
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July 13, 2009
at 5:01 PM
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Basically anythings related to gets messed up…!!
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July 13, 2009
at 5:14 PM
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i meant related to form tag…!!
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July 13, 2009
at 5:04 PM
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ohh.. shoot its worse.. I dont even have a submit review (comment) form…
sry 4 spamming.. just thought will let you know
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July 13, 2009
at 5:19 PM
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Trust me, nothing is changed there, and it works just fine with Starscape. Maybe something else is interfering. There were few bugs, but none of them was critical.
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July 13, 2009
at 5:23 PM
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are you sure your form elements working fine..??
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July 13, 2009
at 5:31 PM
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Yes, I use Starscape for development of the plugin.
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July 13, 2009
at 5:39 PM
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well i ain’t saying its coz of some issues in strarscape… i was just telling that search of starscape also not visible.. when i didnt know that it was something to do with form elements
since yesterday I haven’t made any change except of this plugin therefore.. I am sure something to do with firefox & plugin..
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July 13, 2009
at 5:59 PM
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As I said, no issues on my side. And I always test plugin before releasing in all major browsers. Also, there is no connection between Starscape and plugin except for integration functions and even than there is nothing that can disable forms only in some browsers. Since Firefox is a piece of s**t browser, that causes many, many problems who knows what can the problem be. And the fact that the problem is only with Firefox tells a lot.
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July 13, 2009
at 6:06 PM
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But seriously did you try it with firfox…?? Coz see to be true a lot of people use firefox.. and the whole thing will remain messed if it is like this.. I am trying to figure what could be the problem… but!!! I have YSlow installed on my firefox and it shows the form element color as dimmed i.e sort of disabled or something.. somehow firefox is treating things a bit differently..!!
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July 13, 2009
at 6:13 PM
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I too have YSlow and all kinds of other Firbug extensions in both 3.0.11 and 3.5. And no problems here. I can’t help you if I can’t reproduce the problem.
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July 13, 2009
at 5:32 PM
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Weired.. opera & ie shows the comment form but firefox doesn’t..!!??
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July 13, 2009
at 5:06 PM
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Nice work….
But i noticed a small bug. If the thumbs size is smaller than 32px (Medium), a small line is repeated in right and bottom part of the thumb.
i also overcome it by just making one px small the size of the thumb that it actually have.
But really nice work.
One more thing after giving vote to any thumb, i refresh the page then it thumb become active and now i also can vote again.
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July 13, 2009
at 5:20 PM
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Many things can cause that including other plugins or anything that adds CSS to WP. There are few problems with saving votes, and it will be resolved soon.
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July 13, 2009
at 6:22 PM
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a small favor.. can u visit this site with your firefox & see the comment form
http://www.khojiye.com/reviews/2009/06/10/bansal-classes-kota/
once… i m really sorry 4 trouble but if you can it would be gr8
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July 13, 2009
at 6:47 PM
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Everything works just fine, no problems with forms, ratings or anything else. Something is wrong with your Firefox.
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July 13, 2009
at 7:16 PM
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ahhhhhhhhhh… thank you
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July 14, 2009
at 3:28 PM
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hello,
some files like »gd_db_install.php« contain a blank line after ?> which causes my blog to give out blank pages.
also:
the tabs unter »settings« don’t work anymore, it now is a long site.
thanks for your work
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July 14, 2009
at 8:40 PM
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I will fix that. As for the tabs, I have no problem.
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July 14, 2009
at 10:40 PM
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hey millan, thanks for the response and your effort!
i’m having the tab problem since the 1.5.1 i believe. weird…
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July 14, 2009
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http://www.team69.com/members/
as you can see i get these warning messages throughout the member side of buddypress.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home7/nyccount/public_html/team69/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gd-star-rating.php on line 727
Im running all the new versions of both buddy and mu.
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July 14, 2009
at 5:12 PM
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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home7/nyccount/public_html/team69/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gd-star-rating.php on line 727
Thats the error
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July 14, 2009
at 9:03 PM
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As I said many time before, at this point plugin is still not fully compatible with WPMU and BoddyPress, and I don’t know what can cause errors in WPMU environments. I plan to add official support for WPMU/BP, but that will be another 2-3 months from now.
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July 14, 2009
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I’ve big problem with graph on 1.5.3 … the box is all blank !
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July 14, 2009
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Dashboard graph is working, the other ones will be fixed soon.
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July 15, 2009
at 3:08 PM
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I know I will make a stupid out of myself, but I’d rather be safe than sorry. How to upgrade from 1.4.6 to 1.5.3, and not lose ratings? Is it enough to overwrite files? or something more?
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July 15, 2009
at 3:22 PM
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Upgrade will not cause any data to be lost. BUT, after upgrade, check all the settings to be sure that they are still the same. There are many changes in settings, so it’s best to see if everything with them is ok.
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July 15, 2009
at 4:39 PM
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After overwriting files I have a problem which looks like this:
http://www.myfto.net/index.php/ranking-fto/post-testowy/
Can You help mi out?
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July 15, 2009
at 4:49 PM
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As I said you need to check everything. Some of the functions also have changed parameters, so most likely you need to check everything you use for integration. From 1.5.0 none of the functions will be modified, so future versions will don’t have this problem.
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July 15, 2009
at 5:27 PM
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I went through all integration functions and updated parameters, but the problem was not there. I removed if clause
if (defined(“STARRATING_INSTALLED”)) :
and errors dissapeared from comment integration area, hovever there are still errors in displaing results at post pages, errors dissapear when I “lock and hidden” but I just want to “lock”, any clue?
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July 15, 2009
at 5:52 PM
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Sorry, I don’t know. But the problem is somewhere in the functions I am sure of that.
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July 15, 2009
at 7:05 PM
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Ok, just point mi which file displays rating in posts and pages (I do not mean integrating functions), thnx
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July 15, 2009
at 7:24 PM
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Well, it’s not that easy. Code is divided into many files, and all are used my the central class.
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July 15, 2009
at 11:30 PM
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I understand, finally I took a step back to 1.5.0 and everything works fine, I sugest You take a look at this strange behaviour, doesn’t look like problem with function to me. Greetings !
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July 15, 2009
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Seams that the thumbs display ok on the article but not on comments (despite having it activated in the parameters). What is needed in the comments loop to integrate the thumb review?
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July 15, 2009
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Yes, comments thumbs are broken right now. 1.5.4 will be released later tonight with many fixes.
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July 23, 2009
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thumbs are great addon. Could you make more skins for them ? I would like also to have some kind of widgets to preview the rating at the index coz i dont use stars at all only thumbs.
Great job by the way.
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July 23, 2009
at 11:08 AM
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Widgets support thumbs.
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August 1, 2009
at 8:17 PM
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Hi, great plugin!
I am, however, experiencing a weird problem in IE8. If I’m not using the “compatibility mode” it displays the stars twice if someone has voted. It’s kind of hard to explain, but check this link for an example http://www.machinemade.org/2008/09/fux-konkrete-jungle-oslo-bla-220808/
It works fine in all other (new) browsers I’ve tried. Is there something in my code or is it IE8′s fault?
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August 1, 2009
at 9:43 PM
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Works fine on my end in both IE8 modes. Plugin works with all IE browsers (6.0 or newer), and IE8 compatibility mode is close to IE6/IE7, so there is no reason for it not to work.
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August 1, 2009
at 10:21 PM
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I fixed it! It was something in my code.
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